About the Book:

About the Authors:

Alistair Gray is from Sunderland He studied pharmacy at Sunderland Polytechnic, graduating in 19BB with first-c1ass honors, and then completed his pre-registration year with Boots in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He continued working for Boots in a variety of pharmacy and store management positions in the north-west of England. In 2002 he changed disciplines and became Community Services Pharmacist at Queens Park Hospital in Blackburn. He completed a Diploma in Clinical and Health Services Pharmacy at the University of Manchester in 2008 and subsequently became Clinical Service Lead Pharmacist for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009, based at the now renamed Royal Blackburn Hospital. In 2012 he received the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Medicines Safety Award for work in Transfer of Care. His interest in this area has continued, resulting in him conceiving what has become the Refer-to-Pharmacy scheme.

Alistair is married with two children and loves spending time with his family. He follows Formula One motor racing closely and enjoys reading, eating out, going to the movies, playing the guitar and song writing (best bits at https://soundcloud.com/A1-Chemist).

Jane Wright, after working for 18 years in the Civil Service, attended the University of Manchester to study pharmacy Jane graduated in 1994 and did her pre-registration year at the Royal Preston Hospital. For the next 10 years Jane worked in Blackburn hospitals in a variety of clinical roles, her last being Clinical Services Manager with responsibility for education and training. In 1999 she obtained a Diploma in Clinical and Health Services Pharmacy at the University of Manchester. She moved to Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust in April 2005 where she was employed as Lead Pharmacist for East Lancashire until retirement in October 2014. Since then she has returned to work part-time as a non-medical prescriber in the Memory Assessment Service at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Jane is married and in her spare time enjoys playing with Molly and Polly (two very lively dogs).

Lynn Bruce studied pharmacy at Aston University. The first 20 years of her working life were based in secondary care variously as medicines information pharmacist, clinical pharmacy lead, clinical economist and latterly in various management positions. She migrated across the divide to primary care in 1997, becoming primary care group and then primary care trust prescribing advisor. Hospital clinical pharmacy beckoned her back to secondary care in 2002: she is now Pharmacy Team Leader on the Medical Assessment Unit at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.

Lynn is married and, when she's not writing pharmacy books, loves studying wild life and travelling and is addicted to puzzles of all types.

Jennifer Oakley is from the Wilral, Merseyslde. She studied pharmacy at Liverpool John Moore's University graduating in 2007 with a first-class honors degree, and was jointly awarded the local RoyaI Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain branch prize in 2OO7. She then went on to complete her Postgraduate Clinical Diploma whilst undertalting a residency at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals. Meeting her future husband led her to Lancashire where she has worked in several roles, currently as an Antimicrobial and Critical Care Pharmacist at East Lancashire Hospitals.